Update-Diagnosed Invasive ductal carcinomas

elisa60

Hello everybody just got back from cancer clinic. I wanted to keep you all updated. This is what going on with me. Cancer doctor said I have (Stage 3 breast cancer).Tumor is (3cm) Estrogen receptors (Negative) Progesterone receptors (Negative) HER2 neu (Negative). I am scheduled next week to get my port cath

I will be put on two combinations of chemo drugs name Cytoxan and Taxotere for every three weeks for six treatments. After I finish the rounds of chemo I will have a lumpectomy or a mastectomy and after this I will have two or three weeks of radiation at least three or four times a week.

The doctor checked my lymph nodes and could not find any tumors but going to have me go get a ultra sound just to make sure. This is a hard pill for me to swallow because you can hear about thing happening to other people but I never thought that this will happen to me.

If somebody would have told me about four months ago that I will be going through this I would have told them that they were lying. I want to thank everybody on BCO for all their loving support they have given me. I am so glad I found this website and all these loving sweet people I want everybody to continue to pray for me and I will continue to pray for everybody also and I will keep everybody updated on my journey. I love you all.

beach2beach

Elisa60,

((hugs))) Glad you have a plan in place and can get to the next stage of this all,,being able to actually do something about it. It is so crazy, you worry when you have a mammo or feel a lump but you always tend to think, not me, not now. My sister was diagnosed 9 years ago with Stage 3..Inflammatory BC, She was 48 at the time. She is now NED.. I thought when I was going for my mamo/sonos which I had been doing faithfully all along plus MRI,,that there was a possibility I would get bc,,but then again figured,,my sister had it what are the odds I would get it too. No one else in the family. I was 51 when i was diagnosed last year. Still seems surreal.

You got this!

oxygen18

Thanks so much for the update, Elisa. I hope the nodes turn out to be indeed clear.

For Taxotere, you might consider using Cold Caps as there is a possibility of some lasting hair loss, I am one of those who experienced that, and it is not always disclosed as a side effect. But I also experienced the beneficial effects of the drug, and I wish that for you. May all the prescribed drugs do a clean sweep for you.

So much to process, in the beginning. We'll be here for you. Take care.

couragement

Dearest Elisa60,

I am so very sorry to learn of your diagnosis. Thank you so much for letting us all know what is going on for you. I am thinking of you with much love and care and hoping that this treatment process goes as smoothly as possible for you. Getting your port will be a good thing to help you through the treatments. Just start one step at a time and keep letting us know how you are.

May you rest up now and stay as strong as possible. You can do this! It is indeed a hard pill to swallow, as you have said. But you can do it!

With great love and strength!

elisa60

couragement- Thank you so much I appreciate your good advice.

elisa60

beach2beach- You are so inspiring, your sister is a nine years survival. I am motivated by you and all the others for uplifting me when I was feeling at my lowest and thank you so much. I am praying that God will bless me to.

mustlovepoodles

I'm sorry it turned out this way. It sounds like you feel more in control now that you have a solid plan in place.

WonderWoman75

Hi All,

I try not to look at my papers too much to add my accurate diagnosis, but one day I will post it. I do have a surgery date set for August 27th, for a bilateral mastectomy with expanders put in place for future implantation. My stomach gets upset even typing about it. But, I feel better knowing that I will be having surgery 24 days after finding out that I have the Cancer.

I am nervous about the recovery. Hell, I am nervous and anxious about having C, but I cannot control any of it BUT I do have the choice to remove it from my body. I am thankful for that.

msphil

hi sweetie so glad you have your treatment plan things will ease up some But know that you can get thru this. I am a 24yr Survivor this yr Praise God be Positive that i Will get thru this and Always have Hope got me thru. God Bless Us All. mdphil(idc stage2 0/3 nodes chemo 3mo before and after Lmast then we got married I was engaged at diagnosis then we got married our 2nd then rads.and 5yrs on Tamoxifen. Chemo cytoxin 5fu adriamycin.